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This follows last year’ s decision by the World Health Organisation to add snakebite to the organisation’ s list of neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) Finally, there is a critical need for better data on the actual burden of snakebites around the world . Experts already predict that the real number of

"The biggest global health crisis you've never heard of". Kofi Annan. The Australian Venom Research Unit is proud to present the Premier run of From a Kenyan hospital patient to a rice farmer in India, victims of venomous snakebites are the faces of a staggeringly widespread global crisis the world

Aid workers helping to tackle the ebola crisis in the Democratic Republic of Congo are working under “terrifying” conditions amid violent attacks on health centres, the government has warned.

Snakebites are a growing public- health crisis . According to the World Health Organization, around 5 million people worldwide are bitten by snakes The world ' s handful of snakebite specialists gathered in a small conference room in the Palais des Nations—although they shared concern over the

» The Snakebite Crisis | Snakebite : The World ' s Ignored Health Crisis . That’s the typical reaction from just about anyone in the developed world when first learning about the enormity of the never-ending snakebite crisis plaguing the rural poor on soils far away from the comforts we enjoy.

Wellcome, the London-based independent global charitable foundation, has announced £80m in funding for a new programme to focus on changing the way treatments are researched and delivered.

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Professor William Hayes from the department of Earth and biological sciences at Loma Linda University, Southern California, survived a bite from a baby rattle snake.

He told Sky News it "hurt like a son of a gun" and was "not a pleasant experience".

Professor Hayes also told us about some of the world's deadliest snakes.

Several factors needed to considered when assessing the the relative danger of a species, such as their proximity to human populations, their venom toxicity, and how widely-spread they are.

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Hard up family stumble across £20k gold nugget on beach.
An Australian family who were having money troubles have found a 624-gramme gold nugget worth £20,000 on the beach. A father-of-two was walking with his daughters and dog on the outskirts of Bendigo, Victoria, when they made the discovery. The man, who wants to stay anonymous, told the Bendigo Advertiser: "I actually walked right past it but my daughter pretty much kicked it as she was walking. "She then goes - dad, is this gold? I said, I think it might be.

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